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What types of infections can i get from contaminated drinking water?

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Dr. Carrie Cannon answered

Specializes in Family Medicine

Waterborne illnesses: You can get infections which are passed via the fecal oral route such as giardia, cryptosporidium, hepatits A, norovirus, camplobacter, Salmonella, and E. Coli most of which cause gastroenteritis with diarrhea and cramping. http://www.cdc.gov/healthywater/drinking/public/water_diseases.html

Answered 3/13/2020

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Multiple: possibilities: bacteria infection or amebic infection of the stomach and intestines, fungal infections and sepsis.

Answered 3/22/2020

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Dr. Ayman Omar answered

Specializes in Neurology

Many: Many infections but generally those related to protozoa (such as amebiasis, cryptosporidiosis, giardiasis, microsporidiosis), parasites (such as schistosomiasis, teniasis, ascariasis, enterobiasis), bacteria (such as cholera, botulism, E. coli infections, dysentry, typhoid, salmonellosis) and viral (such as polio and hepatitis).

Answered 3/22/2020

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